Fear the Walking Dead season 7 will be a very different show, says co-showrunner Ian Goldberg. The first spinoff series to spawn from AMC's The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, was created by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson and primarily focused around the Clark family when the series began in 2015. Family matriarch Madison (Kim Dickens) was quickly established as the series protagonist, fearlessly leading her family and other Los Angeles survivors through the zombie apocalypse. Fear the Walking Dead has focused more on original series character Morgan Jones (Lennie James) and his mission to find new survivors since his transition onto the series in season 4.
The series premiered the first half of its sixth season back in October following a halt in production due to the pandemic. The second half of season 6 returned in April with nine new episodes that concluded in June. The second half of season 6 saw Morgan and the other survivors face off with underground cult leader Teddy (John Glover), who is bent on destroying the world with nuclear missiles. Season 6 ends with Teddy firing a missile of a beached submarine and detonating 10 nuclear warheads over Texas before Morgan can stop it, leaving Morgan and the survivors to deal with a whole new apocalypse and setting season 7 up to look much different.
During a post-season 6 livestream with TWDUniverse on Twitch (via ComicBook), season 7 co-showrunner Ian Goldberg said that the new season will be a radically different show. With the fallout of season 6, which Goldberg says is "going to obviously shake things up in a major way," he describes the new season as a "reinvention." Read what Goldberg had to say about the upcoming season below:
The world has changed. The landscape has now changed. We have multiple nuclear warheads that have detonated, so that's gonna change everything. That's gonna change the walkers, that's gonna change the living conditions, that's gonna change everything about how our characters navigate this world. Just when they got a handle on how to deal with the apocalypse, now we have another apocalypse on top of the one they've been living in.
On a macro level, it's still a western story that we're telling. Also the anthological approach to the stories, which we started to really dig into Season 6, that's going to continue into Season 7 as well. We're telling these really concentrated two or three character stories that have true beginning, middles, and ends. You saw at the end of Season 6, the characters are all scattered in different locations and different pairings.
Not necessarily saying that's who they'll be with when we come up with them in Season 7, but I think it's not a spoiler to say that people are scattered to the four corners and they're going to be struggling to survive in this new world and finding each other might just be a small part of how they're gonna navigate that.
Goldberg went on to say that he and co-showrunner Andrew Chambliss have reinvented the show unlike anything they have done in the past. "I think it's gonna look like a whole different show. It already does with the dailies we're getting and the cuts that are coming in," Goldberg said. "Honestly, it feels like a different planet with how much the landscape has changed — everything from the costumes to the landscapes or the walkers, everything." He continued, "Andrew and I talk a lot about reinventing the show every eight episodes, every season, but this is by far the biggest reinvention that we've done. So I cannot wait to share it with everybody." Production on Fear the Walking Dead season 7 began in April and is set to premiere late this year on AMC.
Teddy's actions at the end of season 6 certainly changed the game for the show, creating a whole new post-apocalypse within a post-apocalypse. Now the characters will have to deal with a nuclear apocalyptic world, similar to that of the Max Max movies. It will also be interesting to see the continued anthological approach to the episodes. Stakes are certainly high this season and it sounds like Fear the Walking Dead will never look the same again for these characters.
Source: ComicBook
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